Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023. Several climate monitoring teams say these last three years approach the warming limit set by the 2015 ...

Global surface temperature is the average temperature of the Earth’s surface at a given time. It is a combination of the near ...

Earth recorded its hottest year ever in 2024, with such a big jump that the planet temporarily passed a major climate threshold, several weather monitoring agencies announced Friday. Last year's ...

It’s official: The year 2024 was indeed the hottest on record. It was also the first year in recorded history that Earth’s average temperature was higher than 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial ...

This week saw the hottest global temperature ever recorded, according to data from the US National Centers for Environmental Prediction. On Monday, the average global temperature reached 17.01 degrees ...

The Arctic is warming approximately three times faster than the global mean, a phenomenon termed Arctic Amplification. 8 times faster than the global average since the late 1970s. 20°C above the ...

Our species likes it cold. Homo sapiens evolved in — and still inhabits — one of Earth’s rare and fragile ice ages, periods distinguished not by an abundance of saber-toothed cats and woolly mammoths ...

The stretch of Earth's record-breaking global temperatures continues as the planet experiences its 10th consecutive record-breaking month. March 2024 continues the sequence of climate records toppling ...

The image reveals Earth's increase in temperatures across the years, including 2025 – officially the planet's third-warmest year on record ...